Like Advanced Adventure, its tone is also fairly idiosyncratic in one cave, you have to square off against a team of super-powered “Pallet Rangers,” modeled after their Mighty Morphin’ kin. Prism is ambitious and bizarre, featuring minigames, side-scrolling exploration segments and even areas where you manually control the pokémon in your party. That means more recent pokémon have been graphically simplified to match the game’s 8-bit aesthetic. What’s fascinating is that its roster features pokémon from the first four generations of the series, all the way up to the Diamond and Pearl titles on Nintendo DS. Though most ROM hacks are built upon Game Boy Advance-era titles, Pokémon Prism is a modded version of Pokémon Gold for Game Boy Color. In order to fully complete the game, you have to either take out or capture those Tyrants, which include a Zangoose that wields metal claws, and an Arcanine equipped with Water-type abilities. The game does feature one other major change to the Eight Gyms/Elite Four standard formula: Each area you travel through is also tormented by the aptly named “Tyrant Pokémon,” which are mutated forms of the game’s standard monsters. At one point, the usually kindly Professor Oak reveals that your character once ate nothing but dirt for an entire week. you) comes from an extremely poor family, something the game makes sure that you never have a chance to forget. It’s not the only strange change to the story: Advanced Adventure‘s protagonist (a.k.a. That plot contributes a fairly strange tone to the game, as you might imagine. But here you find that your rival, generically named Gary, is now a bloodthirsty maniac who rules the world, and the only way to stop him is to best his eight equally evil subordinates. Pokémon: Advanced Adventure, based off of the GBA title Pokémon: Leaf Green, follows that structure up to a point.
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Pokémon games have followed a fairly similar series of events since the very first game: You get a starter (choice of grass, fire or water), collect and level Pokémon to build your team, face off against your rival a few times in your journey, take down the eight gym leaders and finally, conquer the Elite Four. Although many are barely equal to the original material, here’s a list of some that go above and beyond without any input from Nintendo whatsoever. Arise the modding community, spawning countless new games, some slightly different than their source of inspiration, and some far superior. The public didn’t just want more, they needed more. But with each additional generation has come the increasingly high demand for games. In that time, they’ve published seven generations of games and created dozens of spin-offs. Pokémon has been going strong for 20 years now.